Can Light Rail Be an Engine of Opportunity? The Twin Cities Story

[kickysnana]

1. The lite rail along Univ Ave takes 48+ minutes. Express bus took about 28.

They are trying to keep the oil/freight trains from coopting the track but if they get Republicans in again that could happen. that is impacting commuter trains already in place.

The bus that runs .25 miles from me runs ~ every half hour but not on Sundays, not overnight. I would really really like to have bus service everywhere every 15 minutes and every half hour overnight 7 days a week or none of this is any use to me. The money spent whould have allowed that.

I have mobility, stamina and temperature problems the long waits everywhere I go are just not doable if I were trying to to it for a job and often medical is not doable either.

Buses can go around crashes, disasters etc, not so trains, street cars. I rode a street car when I was 3. There was a reason most places went with buses. Besides all that overhead is U.G.L.Y 24/7.

I loved the one guy who thought that someone "had given our leaders street car heroin" because they seem to get totally hooked on it to the exclusion of common sense.